the only problem with these is they are staged so that people walk away. they need to be staged, difficult i know, so that people need to be carried off.
"And remember, kids: if you can't run and can't hide and can't fight: *play dead*! Use the blood of your dying classmate to really ramp up the realism!"
Some things you just can't sugar coat. Getting hit by a car may kill you, with rare exception everyone has one of two sets of bits, and working hard is absolutely required to succeed at something... You can't hide from reality.
When I was a kid -- back in the Sixties -- I remember a *particularly effective* ad. There was a guy sitting behind the wheel, and he's complaining: "I don't use seatbelts -- they're **too confining**." Cut to the same guy in a wheelchair... *effective for me*!
I taught in a small rural school system in Japan. They didn't get these kinds of resources; instead, we had a couple of guys from the village hall come and drop tofu on the pavement, then place another tofu block in a bike helmet and drop that, to illustrate how helmets protect your brain.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Maybe in technical situations cus the social bit is all formally cold politeness unless youre dealing with subculture types like gyaru/gyaru-o- or the other westernized subcultures like the vatos or rockabillies. But ya ave citizen will walk hurriedly by as ya cry in the street cus that much emotion publicly is too much.
And stay off your phone on the subway unless its just listening to stuff via earphones.
Not to mention the sheer amount of unreported homelessness and their weeeeird celebration of the prison system (like, festivals with merch kinda celebration). This is the same system that lone elderly folks end up using to keep off the streets because they have no safety net or family to rely on. And the justice system is... weirdly worse than the US in terms of convictions. For them, if you're in cuffs, you're guilty and they will go to lengths to make you confess, no pretense of innocence.
Trying to make us be careful? Nice try. We know all about your population decline. These classes will never stop us from going to other worlds and learning magic from hot elf chicks.
About a decade ago there was a crisis in the Japanese comedy circles, because their escalating dangerous stunts were making it impossible to insure them. This was at the same time one of them ran through a komodo dragon enclosure with meat tied to their legs
They can't even do those stunts where real people go over the hood with SUVs or consumer trucks, they're too tall and you eat the full impact instead of going over, it's the reason that pedestrian deaths are way up over the last 15 years. Be careful out there folks and maybe think about others' safety when you're next replacing your car.
That training only works because Japanese society actually places value on not inconveniencing other members. Wouldn't work in a "Me first" society like urban America; it would just give them new ideas to fuck with others.
Would love a source if someone knows. Also the rule of 3s goes so hard here. We need to show crazy traffic going both ways. More wild, make them go up and down. FUCK IT TRY SPINNING!
Actually, the gif is from "Zombie Land SAGA." She didn't get isekai'd, she woke up as a zombie. Who was then required to become the leader of an idol group of other zombie girls.
It's a fun show. I'm looking forward to the third season/movie.
If you look at all the different years the idols come from it does lead to the question of "how far into the future do you have to be sent for it to count as isekai?".
Slight disagree. IMO cars should have a limited and exceptional part in a sane city-scape. But yeah definitely not the universal and normal part they tend to have today
Unless you've got unbreakable TP that's not nearly enough to clean your bum. However, knowing Japan, they've got fancy toilets and water jets to get yourself clean. The rest is just drying. And even though western style sit down toilets are more common. The squat pot is still the best way to expel your bowels. As it's the natural position we're meant to be using biologically. The sit down method causes so many health issues.
One square? That sheet would be ruined two wipes in. Just get another square and keep the hands cleaner. I'm sure they can spare a square or two. But this is also great and the only reason it's not happening in the US is because of puritan sensibilities about the body.
You know the old saying, half the population sits while wiping, the other half stands up, and neither group are aware of each other till someone brings it up. Or maybe you didn't know the old saying till just now..
i think the problem less how inexcusably surprised people are about doing something different from themselves and more that we as a species seem vastly more interested in stupid surveys and clickbait than getting to the... bottom... of this issue with objective scientific evidence.
yes, bidet is the "right" answer, but that's not viable when you're in the woods, so i think the question is still worth answering
I've never seen it as a problem, but rather a fascinating bit of anthropology. As for bidets, they can be great; they can also scold your ass if you are not careful.
approximately 3.6 billion people stand up while wiping, while the other 4.8 billion or thereabouts sit down while wiping. There are many reasons to pick either position, it is entirely individual to the person.
I would argue the standing squat is the best. You're off the toilet, so you aren't constrained by space and don't have to have your hand anywhere near the inside of a toilet. Your ass hovers over the toilet, so no risk of droppage. And you're squatting, so the cheeks are still spread for maximum coverage. It's perfect! Assuming you have the leg strength anyhow.
Tesaphine
Great, now do fully grown adults in California.
Xerxes4242
Still not as hardcore as the way Germans learn forklift safety.
charondaboatman
This explains a lot.
psmith00
the only problem with these is they are staged so that people walk away. they need to be staged, difficult i know, so that people need to be carried off.
GeekDadKevin
Easily less horrid that the Death on the Highway videos from the US. My question though is 'Do you have a drift class as well?'
moecurlylarry
It reminds me of the scene from the movie” don’t be a menace..” where he becomes a crash test dummy
AdroitCudgel
In American children in schools encouraged to wear bulletproof backpacks, and learn shooter drills.
Bizarkly
"And remember, kids: if you can't run and can't hide and can't fight: *play dead*! Use the blood of your dying classmate to really ramp up the realism!"
yn7jy8s84v7
Season 1 is great! Where season 2?
Urgalicity
Some things you just can't sugar coat. Getting hit by a car may kill you, with rare exception everyone has one of two sets of bits, and working hard is absolutely required to succeed at something... You can't hide from reality.
Che07
For a kid, that's the next closest thing to reaching up and touch a hot stove.
bambinod
teaching kids consequences... what a novel idea!
hotaru251
show a group of kids a person being killed/crippled and they will learn a lifelong lesson from it.
lightfoot2
Pedestrians are targets? Yeah we learn this in New york, you can chase them up a tree 10 feet.
sherlockhooves
American high schoolers just get some videos of drunk driving accidents and testimonies from victims and family of victims of drunk drivers.
Bizarkly
When I was a kid -- back in the Sixties -- I remember a *particularly effective* ad. There was a guy sitting behind the wheel, and he's complaining: "I don't use seatbelts -- they're **too confining**." Cut to the same guy in a wheelchair... *effective for me*!
ISayGoodSirCouldIHaveSomeGoodChemicals
but how can they isekai if they don't jump in front of that truck...
ilhares
Truck-kun is a doorway to an alternative existence, that's for sure.
CorvidPrime
Is THAT what I’m doing wrong…? I want my harem of hot magical demi-humans!
RooGryphon
not real enugh. show the kids some blood and guts of what happens when you FA
gronzilla
Yeah some of the stunts make it seem like you can apparently just roll of the windshield and land super-hero style.
Hatrax
I taught in a small rural school system in Japan. They didn't get these kinds of resources; instead, we had a couple of guys from the village hall come and drop tofu on the pavement, then place another tofu block in a bike helmet and drop that, to illustrate how helmets protect your brain.
starkeclipse
That's clever. I might do that for my kiddos. Thanks for sharing!
Hatrax
If you do, use firm tofu. They didn't, and both kind of splattered everywhere. Also maybe put the tofu in ziplocks to avoid a mess in general.
MaybeIllDisappear
usernametakenisthestoryofmylife
"Alright children, watch us kill little Johnny"
BeaverOnFire
https://media4.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1OWR2cGY4b2UwdjR4NXNyaGEzZnlqMm82ZzcxeHE1ZnczbzdqZ2p4YyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/5xtDarqDKCOiBtvHKRW/200w.webp
DePhyler
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1dTR0eXByMjkxYWhrZ2g3bTVtd29lcTF6czRkdXF2bDkzcnJ1eXhiOSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/lIcXJAuHJYZNu/200w.webp
Cornflakes91
he didnt give the borrowed bolts back to his aunt
ArkoneAxon
Teaching kids to avoid getting Isekai'd by Truck-kun?
Currahee63
The burned hand teaches best. After that advice about fire goes to the heart. –G t G
WillLickNudibranchsForBUzz
Absolutely no fucking around. Gotta love it.
sadurdaynight
If you're gonna run over kids, be sure to install your mad max cattle guard bumper
RooGryphon
thats why i love that culture. right to the point and informative
datphone777365
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Maybe in technical situations cus the social bit is all formally cold politeness unless youre dealing with subculture types like gyaru/gyaru-o- or the other westernized subcultures like the vatos or rockabillies. But ya ave citizen will walk hurriedly by as ya cry in the street cus that much emotion publicly is too much.
And stay off your phone on the subway unless its just listening to stuff via earphones.
unluckyandbored
Could do without their toxic work habits, sexualization of minors and rampant misogyny.
Stabmatic
Not to mention the sheer amount of unreported homelessness and their weeeeird celebration of the prison system (like, festivals with merch kinda celebration). This is the same system that lone elderly folks end up using to keep off the streets because they have no safety net or family to rely on. And the justice system is... weirdly worse than the US in terms of convictions. For them, if you're in cuffs, you're guilty and they will go to lengths to make you confess, no pretense of innocence.
jtxyz
"what do you do for work?"
"I get hit by cars while Japanese school children are forced to watch."
diepgat
Isekai 101 class.
TheMurderousCricket
"It was a great honor to die for this cause"
- Average Japanese stuntperson
thedill2000
Checks history. Huh, the kamakazi have evolved
YouRadicalizedMe
I would be down for that
Sage042000
Trying to make us be careful? Nice try. We know all about your population decline. These classes will never stop us from going to other worlds and learning magic from hot elf chicks.
darthinebriated
Truck-kun is that you?
datphone777365
More likley their take would be that it would be dishonorable to die and leave the demonstration team short handed because one failed the stunt.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
"For the last time Kenji, we have protective equipment."
ReallyOG
Oh no these are not stunt peoples!
These are actual locals who committed a motoring/bicycle crime
Think of it like a cross between a speed awareness course and Takeshi’s Castle. Everyone learns a lesson on these courses or they don’t pass.
NarratesTheDarkerStory
Some countries: RIGHT TO JAIL
Japan: *Sound of car horn gets louder as I say a prayer*
LurkingSarcasm
Right you are, Ken
Quizz25S
You jay-walked, now your punishment is to get hit by a car to serve as a warning to children
SalmonTheWise
The punishment for jaywalking is more jaywalking.
SofaH3ro
He died doing what he loved.
PorcNoStar
The more I think about it, the better your idea gets. Like really, this is a hard win-win!
69thStPepper
About a decade ago there was a crisis in the Japanese comedy circles, because their escalating dangerous stunts were making it impossible to insure them. This was at the same time one of them ran through a komodo dragon enclosure with meat tied to their legs
Margrave9000
Hilarious.
69thStPepper
To be honest, I never did understand what was funny about it
Margrave9000
You must have no sense of humor.
It's comedians. 😂
With meat. 😂
Tied onto their legs. 😂
They are made to run. 😂
From Komodo dragons. 😂
And it's on TV. 😂
SalmonTheWise
That's crazy, I have meat on my legs.
Shaows
This one?
69thStPepper
That's the one!
Sage042000
Bro...
Skevoid
They can't even do those stunts where real people go over the hood with SUVs or consumer trucks, they're too tall and you eat the full impact instead of going over, it's the reason that pedestrian deaths are way up over the last 15 years. Be careful out there folks and maybe think about others' safety when you're next replacing your car.
starkeclipse
Super interesting fact! Thanks for passing it along.
divingin
That training only works because Japanese society actually places value on not inconveniencing other members. Wouldn't work in a "Me first" society like urban America; it would just give them new ideas to fuck with others.
YuffieK
Camelspotting
This bit will never get old in any medium
FuzzyX
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1ZDhweXRzaW1ydTJrZGt4M24xYmJxZG5idmQwZnQ4ODQxazBkdG1xeCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/JtQSjpb1FidfC7Xl7r/200w.webp
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
dozo arigato gozaimasu, Torakku-kun
Poco3o
Dōmo*
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Yep, I noticed a bit later. I plead temporary derp. 🔊
yalczero
yalczero
SirSage
Would love a source if someone knows. Also the rule of 3s goes so hard here. We need to show crazy traffic going both ways. More wild, make them go up and down. FUCK IT TRY SPINNING!
Ree81
Excel Saga was ADHD before ADHD
volkvostok
Ah, Excel Saga. How I experienced a drug trip without drugs.
75townecoupe
Meh. It's a kei truck. It should only be able to isekai her a couple universes over.
Yakeshinu
YuffieK
nullbr
Imagine if you got killed and got isekaid just 3 blocks away from you home
ArkoneAxon
Actually, the gif is from "Zombie Land SAGA." She didn't get isekai'd, she woke up as a zombie. Who was then required to become the leader of an idol group of other zombie girls.
It's a fun show. I'm looking forward to the third season/movie.
Recursiv3
She woke up as a zombie and became the leader of an idol zombie group.... Anime literally has everything 😂
75townecoupe
Nice. I'll look it up :)
Leonon
If you look at all the different years the idols come from it does lead to the question of "how far into the future do you have to be sent for it to count as isekai?".
darthinebriated
1000 years aka the Futurama Protocol.
Sherpafish
The real lesson here should be that cars are insanely dangerous and have no part in a sane city-scape.
TELunus
Slight disagree. IMO cars should have a limited and exceptional part in a sane city-scape. But yeah definitely not the universal and normal part they tend to have today
IrrationalNumber
Agree. All goods should just be airdropped into the city in large multi-tonne containers, and pray the parachutes made by the lowest bidder work.
Username62611
Do you think goods are delivered to cities in...cars?
IrrationalNumber
Where do you live if there are rails or canals to every corner grocery store in the city?
Username62611
Not my fault you made your example about delivering shipping crates, a thing cars don't do.
IrrationalNumber
What is a truck other than a really big car?
Imapseudonym
If a car is to dangerous a several ton delivery truck would be a weapon of mass destruction by comparison.
CouldntCakeLess
next up: poop class
shitheadtookmyname
If your parents aren't teaching you how to wipe your ass before you start school, you're already cooked
TheSimpleDude
when do they learn about the poop knife
CouldntCakeLess
Hightech Nation
YeastInfectedWhiskerBiscuit
Unless you've got unbreakable TP that's not nearly enough to clean your bum. However, knowing Japan, they've got fancy toilets and water jets to get yourself clean. The rest is just drying. And even though western style sit down toilets are more common. The squat pot is still the best way to expel your bowels. As it's the natural position we're meant to be using biologically. The sit down method causes so many health issues.
elbowdeepinawhateverthatis
Way ahead of you. https://youtu.be/_7ZyRB3-X7A
CouldntCakeLess
blah1blah1blah1
Once you go Bidet you don’t go back.
If someone put poop on your hand, would you wash it with water or a napkin?
So why do you walk around with stank ass all day long?
ATinyWaffle
Ok, but I don't eat food with my asshole. It does not need to be as perfectly clean as your hands which touch food and your face often.
itwasababyox
"Okay but I dont eat food with my asshole."
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gablestout
Once you wafflestomp in the shower, you'll question why you even bought a toilet and bidet in the first place
iWantedAcoolNameButTheyOnlyHadThisOne
Once you... what?
gablestout
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=waffle+stomper
CouldntCakeLess
wikiHow
MoopsyLD
These are appropriate ways cause they also clean said hands/feet since you are in the shower.
ThePostPenultStraw
One square? That sheet would be ruined two wipes in. Just get another square and keep the hands cleaner. I'm sure they can spare a square or two. But this is also great and the only reason it's not happening in the US is because of puritan sensibilities about the body.
MoopsyLD
Almost every japanese toilet is a bidet now hence less tissue used in the learning.
Evi1Gav
The Japanese, generally, have a significantly healthier diet than the majority of Western countries.
MrNobodyWTB
And also bidets
gablestout
Also, my kids knew how to wipe their asses long before they went to school.
TheFastpaws
I worked IT for a school system and let me tell you. You’d be amazed how many kids lack good hygiene.
jayman0123
I've worked in retail and fast food and let me tell you, you'd be amazed how many adults lack this skill.
TheFastpaws
I’ve also worked retail and fast food. I’ve seen a toilet spray painted with poop. Honestly humans are awful.
StarscreamAndHutch
And were about to go into toilet paper crisis again
captainmojojojo
They have bidets they don't need a lot of squares
Righteousdew
Can't spare a square!
blah1blah1blah1
I have a better idea… Bidet
AnubisPriest
They are wiping with one square because they have a bidet: it's to dry.
gablestout
I have an even better idea! Shower wafflestomp!
ChiLLeCheeze
I have an even betterer idea! A machine that does the waffle stomping for you so you don't have to get your feet dirty!
Toqom
Waffle drop in the toilet, the in the shower to clean
DefinitelyaHumanNotanAlien
No standing?
Dybidude5
Why would you shit standing?
LateNightBunnyParty
...Do you stand when you wipe?
humbedooh
You know the old saying, half the population sits while wiping, the other half stands up, and neither group are aware of each other till someone brings it up. Or maybe you didn't know the old saying till just now..
gablestout
humbedooh
That is just proving the point, isn't it :).
gablestout
:)
Scezumin
i think the problem less how inexcusably surprised people are about doing something different from themselves and more that we as a species seem vastly more interested in stupid surveys and clickbait than getting to the... bottom... of this issue with objective scientific evidence.
yes, bidet is the "right" answer, but that's not viable when you're in the woods, so i think the question is still worth answering
humbedooh
I've never seen it as a problem, but rather a fascinating bit of anthropology. As for bidets, they can be great; they can also scold your ass if you are not careful.
Perkunas687
Some guy on imgur a while back said he wiped from the front while sitting and many were like ???????
SailorPupitar
That's how Ive always done it, back wiping just doesn't feel correct when I've tried it
BARP
https://www.menshealth.com/grooming/a22864779/wipe-standing-up/
Get a bidet, and there will be no wiping.
Sticklebrickk
What kind of pancake ass stands while wiping?
shitheadtookmyname
Here's Japan, bro
Where you going to sit???
humbedooh
approximately 3.6 billion people stand up while wiping, while the other 4.8 billion or thereabouts sit down while wiping. There are many reasons to pick either position, it is entirely individual to the person.
gablestout
WTF. Who the hell sits while wiping?
LateNightBunnyParty
Who the hell stands? Why would you stand? I am so confused. Also, get a bidet.
kennelbreach
I'm a 150lb white AFAB, and I wipe sitting down. Gotta lean forward and spread the cheeks for best wipe access!
bullestock
Apparently, if you are obese it is easier sitting down.
LateNightBunnyParty
OHHHHHHH. This makes more sense. I'm 110 lbs. I don't have any reason to stand. But I could see it being a struggle for someone bigger, I guess.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Even when I was underweight I sat to wipe. Maybe it's different for women who tend to have more butt than men?
MoGleeSophiePenny
Please tell me you forgot the “/s” at the end of your post. lol
starkeclipse
I would argue the standing squat is the best. You're off the toilet, so you aren't constrained by space and don't have to have your hand anywhere near the inside of a toilet. Your ass hovers over the toilet, so no risk of droppage. And you're squatting, so the cheeks are still spread for maximum coverage. It's perfect! Assuming you have the leg strength anyhow.
Scezumin
it's what we evolved for